WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.
WELLINGTON TO SYDNEY
Per Press Association
Wellington, May 3,
The cruiser Challenger accomplished a unique wireless telegraphic feat in maintaining communication with the flagship Powerful lying in Sydney Harbour throughout her passage to Wellington every day. European cablegrams were flicked through by the operators on the Powerful to the Challenger and the news was posted up on the latter vessel for the ship’s company to peruse. On Friday evening at a distance of over eleven hundred miles from Sydney messages were received without break, and the latest developments in Turkey were read with much interest by all. Even in Wellington the Challenger was able to got ip touch with the Powerful 1339 miles away.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9434, 3 May 1909, Page 4
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116WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9434, 3 May 1909, Page 4
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